Recently published Ornithological Works. ' 247 



snared on its eggs in 1865 (long before tlie passing of the 

 Sea-birds Preservation Bill, be it remarked, for even in the 

 interests of science ornithologists do not infringe the la"w !). 

 Part XII. contains plates of Siskins and nest. Common Sand- 

 piper, Little and Temminck's Stints, and Sandwich Tern. In 

 Part XIII. we have the young Cuckoo and the Titlark as foster- 

 parent (an unusually pretty plate), Hoopoe, Golden Oriole, 

 Capercaillie, Stone Curlew (heads only, to show the protube- 

 rances on the base of the upper mandible in the adult male, 

 but absent in the female). Heron and young in nest, immature 

 male Gadwall, and Red-necked Grebe in both young and 

 adult winter plumages. As before, Mr. Booth's letterpress is 

 excellent reading, and the articles on the species which are 

 not figured, and which are too numerous for mention, are 

 quite as interesting as the others. 



40. Buttikofer on the Birds of Liberia. 



[Zoological Researclies in Liberia. A list of Birds collected by Mr. F. 

 X. Stampfli near Monrovia, on the Messm-ado River, and on the Junk 

 River with its tributaries. By J. Biittikofer. Notes Leyden Mus. 

 viii. p. 243.] 



The efforts of Mr. Biittikofer to collect in Liberia have 

 already had important results, which would have been larger 

 had not the unhealthiness of the climate compelled his return 

 to Europe. His work has been continued by Mr. Stampfli, 

 and the present essay gives an account of the collections sent 

 home by the latter traveller. The locality is one of special 

 interest, as it seems to be the meeting-place of the Sene- 

 gambian and Gold Coast faunse, such forms as Parisoma 

 2ilumbeum, Hirundo lucida^ &c. representing the former, 

 while the predominating element is the Gaboon and Gold 

 Coast type, as is e\-idenced by such species as Dryotrior- 

 chis spectahilis, Scotopelia bouvieri (not S. ussheri, curiously 

 enough), Campophaga quiscalina, Nigrita canicapilla (not N. 

 emilice) . The new species of "Warbler, Sylvietta stampflii, has 

 been submitted to Mr. Sharpe, and is pronounced by him to 

 be undescribed. 



